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North Macedonia elects first woman president 2024-05-09
Arab Times

Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of the opposition conservative VMRO-DPMNE party, center top, and their presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, (center bottom), attend a celebration on the main square after their party announced victory in the presidential and parliamentary elections, in...

photo: AP / Boris Grdanoski

Europe Day marks 1 month till EU elections. Rise of hard right, wilting of Green ... 2024-05-09
Wtop

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union marks its annual Europe Day on Thursday, but instead of the humdrum celebrations, all eyes are on the EU elections in a month’s time, which portend a steep rise of the extreme right and a possible move away from the bloc’s global trendsetting climate...

photo: © European Union 2024 - Source : EP

New Axis and liberal international order 2024-05-09
Korea Times

By Kim Sang-woo The fragmented global response to the war in Ukraine shows that while the U.S. and its allies see policies as rooted in efforts to preserve the liberal international order (LIO), many emerging countries see them differently. The emerging countries see it as part of an effort by a...

photo: AP / Vahid Salemi

Can we grow plants on Moon? NASA's Artemis III mission plans to study possibilities; all you need to know 2024-05-09
Live Mint

NASA's Artemis III is set to be a mission in 2026 that will carry a unique payload designed to explore the feasibility of growing plants in the lunar environment.NASA has selected the first scientific instruments for astronauts to deploy on...

photo: NASA

Germany calls for preventing further escalation of Gaza war 2024-05-09
Anadolu Agency

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius called Wednesday for preventing a further escalation of the Gaza war after a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York. Pistorius said he agreed with Guterres that everything must be done to alleviate or end the humanitarian misery of the...

photo: UN / Manuel Elías

What are the EU elections and why do they matter? 2024-05-09
AOL

Up to 450 million citizens in the EU’s 27 member states will go to the polls between 6 and 9 June to elect more than 700 members of the European parliament, the world’s only directly elected transnational assembly. The European parliament elections – more commonly called the European elections –...

photo: © European Union 2024 - Source : EP / © European Union 2024 - Source : EP

That '70s Show: Is Biden Taking America Back to the Age of Jimmy Carter? 2024-05-09
Hot Air

Everything that is happening in our fractured nation today seems so worrisomely reminiscent of America's last lost decade -- the 1970s. Advertisement For those who don't remember, the late 1970s under part-time President Gerald Ford and then...

photo: AP / Charles Rex Arbogast

NK leader voices 'firm support' in his message to Putin over Victory Day 2024-05-09
Korea Times

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia, Sept. 13, 2023. AP-Yonhap North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent a congratulatory message to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the...

Can Jacob Zuma emerge as kingmaker in South Africa’s election? 2024-05-08
Al Jazeera

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is a divisive figure. For some South Africans, the controversial former president is a liberator and saviour for millions of poor people. For others, he is corrupt and ill-fit to lead. Despite having been at the forefront of some of the worst...

photo: AP / Jerome Delay,Pool

Europeans want governments to focus more on curbing migration than climate change, a study says 2024-05-08
Wtop

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Europeans focus more on curbing immigration than on climate change and less than 15% of those interviewed across the globe consider climate issues to be among the top three priorities for their government, according to a global study on...

photo: AP / Valeria Ferraro